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' GAME Original Filed Nov. 1925 Patented J une 30, 1925.

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' GAME.

Application filed November '17,-1923,-S eria1-Ito. 75,311. Renewed may 22, 1935.

To all whom-it may concern. 7

Be .it'known that CA L H. WHITNEY a citizen of the United 'States, residing at Craigyin the county of Burt and State of Nebraska, has invented certain new and usetul improvements in Games, of which the following is a specification.

This invention is an improven ent "in games, and with respect to its' nore specific features, to games-ofthe ball and pocket type.

An objectof the'invention is to provide-a Another object is to provide a board whereingthe hazards, constituted by the par titions between the pockets or stalls, are

ii movable, so that the hazards of any selected pocket-may be increased or diminished Another object is 'toprovide-a game which maybe cheaply manufactured, and sold at a low'price.

Another object is to provide a gameiwhich may be playediin many different ways,:in accordance withthe skill and capacityof-the player, thus to. be interesting to I adults 'or to children.

With these I and other. objects -l in view, J the invention consists in the construction and novel combination of parts fully described hereinafter, illustratedin the accompanying drawings, and pointed outiin the appended claims; it being understood that various changes .in the form, Jp-roportion, size and minor details of'gconstruction, within the base member 3, extending transversely oi? Figure '6 isan end view or an alternate-varra-ngernent. 3 1

In the present embodiment-of the invention, the gameincludesa board having pock-' ets or stalls, of dili'ere'nt value,- 'ior receiving game piec'es, and a set or plurality of sets of game-pieces, {for cooperating w ith the pockets. r I 1 a {Fhe board composed of a strip 1 of sheet material, as for instance card board, which is supported in a 'vertical plane iby uprights or standardsQ, near-'its'end's. Each upright is socket-ed at its lowerend' into a the strip. The "lowerends ofthe uprights" are tapered, as indicated at 4, and' the tapered portions enter similarly shaped sockets f), in the ba-se member's. Preferablythe sockets 5 are'near the middle of the base members, so that the said members extend I beyond both faces ofthe' strip;

Thestrip'is secured to tlie uprights-in any suitable manner, in the present instanceby tacks 6, and the uprights-are held in spaced I re1ation,-and the strip is reinforced, by a cross'bar 7, which extends longitudinally of thestrip at abo ut'its center, is connect-- ed to -the1uprights. 'The'eross bar and the uprightshave openings, which are so placed as to registerwhen-the cross bar is in proper 3 position, and nails or pins 8 are engaged with .the registering openings, one nail -or pin at each upright.- i 1 Theboardisidesigned to beused upon a suitableplane supporting surface, as for instance a Jfloor, table orthe like, or even upon the groundxwhen desired, and the pockets or stalls are provided ior by partitions, which .are loosely connected one endto the strip, and. atthe other-rest upon the supporting su-rtaceior the board. J

=Eac'h partition'is constituted by abarjt) of suitable. material and dimensions, having one end pointedor reduced,-'as shown at 10, to enter an opening or socket 11, 111 the strip.

'These openings may extend into the cross bar to provide a suiiicient hold for the bars if desired. From the strip the bars extend forwardly and downwardly, resting at their forward ends on the support for the board.

The said ends are movable, so that the entrance to any selected pocket may be enlarged or restricted when desired, thereby to diminish or increase the hazard.

Between each pair of adjacent partition bars, the strip 1 is provided with an indication 12, of the value of the pocket. The values of the several pockets are unequal, and are increased or diminished without order, to increase the hazards of the game. Such indications in the present instance are numerals, but it is obvious that other indications might be used.

v The game-pieces, an embodiment of which is shown in Figure 1, are in one or more sets, each set corresponding in number to the number of pockets. Each piece has a cylindrical or zone shaped surface, forming a circular track 13, on which it may roll. The game-pieces may be spheres, or segments of spheres, and preferably each piece has a plurality of flat or plane surfaces 1 1, to hinder or prevent rolling, when the piece rests on such surfaces. These surfaces are at opposite sides of the track, and a convenient way of providing for them and the track is to make the pieces-in the form of disks, as shown in Figure 1, or in the form of, rings as shown in Figure 4E. When the pieces are spherical each has an infinite number of tracks, and the hazard is much lessened in one respect, since the piece can not fall upon a fiat surface to prevent rolling. In another respect the hazard vis increased, since the piece can roll in any direction. The disks 13-14 may be of any suitable material, as may also the rings 15 shown in Figure 4c.

The improved board and game-pieces may be of any convenient size. I have found the following dimensions satisfactory. For the board, a length of from sixteen to twenty inches, and a height of eight or nine inches. With a board of this size, the. bars 9. will be eight or nine inches long, and the gamepieces will have a diameter of five and a half, or siX inches. The board should be spaced above the supporting surface far enough to prevent the game-pieees rolling beneath it. The board may be suitably ornamented, and preferably the name of the game, Roll-em is placed thereon, together with any other suitable inscription, as for. instance the words Can and You The object in playing the game is to ob tain as high a score as possible. The game'- pieces are rolled toward the board with the object of lodging them in the stalls or pockets. The players, of whom there-may be any number, stand a suitable distance from the board, as for instance six feet, and roll a selected number of pieces, all together or separately as may be agreed upon. The values of the pockets in which pieces are lodged are added together to obtain the score, and any preferred total may be fixed upon by the players.

In the alternate arrangement of Figure 6, the board 16 is supported like that of Figure 1. The stalls or pockets are formed by bars 17, which engage openings in the board and in the strip 18. These bars however extend out from the board, and are supported wholly by the board. They are pointed at both ends, and are reversible, either end being engaged with the openings of the board. The construction is otherwise the same as that of Figure 1.

W hat I claim as new, is

1. A game including a board having means to support'the same, inplaying position upon a table orthe like, and means to provide game-piece receiving pockets at one face of the board, including partitions loosely connected at one end with the board and adapted to rest at the other on the table or other support.

2. A game including a board having game-piece receiving pockets, and means to support the board in playing position, including uprights at the ends of the board, and base members to which the uprights are detachably connected extending transversely of the board.

3. In games, a board having game-piece receiving pockets, separated by hazards in the form of partitions loosely connected with the board at one end, and adapted to rest at the other on a table or other support for the board, and movable to increase or diminish the hazard at any selected pocket.

4. In games, a board having means to support the same in playing position, and gamepiece receiving pockets formed by bars loosely connected at one end with the board, and adapted-to rest at the other on a table or other support for the board. 5. In games, a board including a strip of sheet material having uprights near its ends, a rigid cross bar connecting the uprights, and base members having sockets to receive the lower ends of the uprights. I

CARL H. WHITNEY; 

